Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 1993 11:06:18 -0500
To:	uranus!omega!coombe AT uunet DOT UU DOT NET (Skip Coombe)
From:	gerstel AT underground DOT irhe DOT upenn DOT edu (Brian Gerstel)
Subject:	Re: Hacking EXE2BIN.EXE to defeat version checking
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>I liked Morten Welinde's suggestion since setver has caused me
>some problems in the past. I found the string "MSDOS Version 5.00"
>in EXE2BIN.EXE and changed it to "MSDOS Version 6.00", but this had
>no effect (still got "Incorrect version" message). Can anyone tell
>me what the version checking code looks like?
>
>If the answer is RTFM I'd welcome any references - I know that I
>have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and I'd like to gain
>enough to be effective.
>
>Skip

The DOS 6.0 supplemental disk (which I saw stored as (I think) 
/pub/msdos_uploads/upgrades DOS6SUPP.EXE on wuarchive.wustl.edu) has DOS 6
versions of the stuff MS took out.

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